Maria Popova Books

My journey begins with Johannes Kepler, the 17th-century astronomer who sought not only to describe the motion of planets but to understand the moral and aesthetic logic of the cosmos. Kepler lived in an era when science and mysticism still shared the same vocabulary of awe. His discovery of the ell...

From Figuring

Margaret Fuller enters the narrative as both thinker and feeling being—a woman of the American nineteenth century who refused to accept the boundaries prescribed to her sex. As a central figure of transcendentalism, she believed that the divine could be apprehended through the cultivation of the min...

From Figuring